Maps

Maps are an essential part of today's online experience. We can help make sense of the bewildering array of mapping options available to you.

Open Data

The volume of open data continues to grow but how to make this data usable or negotiate licensing conflicts? We can help.

Location

Location is at the core of your business's data, even if you don't know it's there. We can help reveal the value in your data.

ABOUT MALSTOW GEOSPATIAL

Malstow Geospatial provides strategic consultancy and advisory services for the digital maps, open data and location industries. Providing a highly focused, yet human, approach to this domain, Malstow is backed up by over 25 years of commercial expertise via companies including Yahoo, Nokia and HERE Maps, Lokku, OpenCage Data and the Ordnance Survey.

Malstow offers specialist and professional advisory and consultancy in mapping and location technologies, including but not limited to ...Digital maps, APIs and toolkits, location and location based services, geographic information, geolocation and geotagging technologies, geocoding, place identification and disambiguation, colloquial geographic references, location privacy & large scale data aggregation.

“MAPS CODIFY THE MIRACLE OF EXISTENCE.”

Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet

STRATEGY & VISION

Malstow offers strategic direction and vision on adding mapping and location to your organisation's offerings. We can help you develop a tightly focused strategy to enable your business to realise the benefits that digital maps and location services can offer.

MAPPING & LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES

Whether your organisation is an established player in the mapping and location industries, whether you want to add mapping or make your products location aware or if you are testing the waters and want to find out more, Malstow can help you. With in depth knowledge of the industry, we have the expertise that can help you differentiate your products and services from those of your competitors.

OPEN DATA & OPEN LICENSING

The mapping and location industries thrive in the point where open data and proprietary data intersect. But choices of data sources you make can have far reaching consequences, particularly where licensing is concerned. With hard earned experience of licensing proprietary data, of generating open data and of allowing the two to co-exist, Malstow can help you avoid the pitfalls of open data and open licensing and to realise the benefits.

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

The mapping and location industry is growing rapidly and the choices faced by a company can be bewildering. Malstow can help make an informed choice when it comes to making a build vs. buy vs. partner decision. We can help you find the right partners in the industry to enable your organisation to grow and succeed.

OUTREACH & EVANGELISM

From highly technical conference talks that target the B2D market, through social media and blog articles, to board level strategic presentations, Malstow has the experience to articulate your mapping and location strategies and products in language that meets your audience's background and expectations.

"GEOGRAPHY IS JUST PHYSICS SLOWED DOWN, WITH A COUPLE OF TREES STUCK IN IT."

Terry Pratchett

THE PEOPLE BEHIND MALSTOW

Gary Gale

A self-professed map addict, Gary has worked in the mapping and location space for over 20 years through a combination of luck and occasional good judgement. He is co-founder and director of Malstow Geospatial, a consultancy firm offering bespoke consulting and services in the geospatial, geotechnology, maps and location based services fields. A Fellow of the RGS, he tweets about maps, writes about them and even makes them.

"I AM TOLD THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT CARE FOR MAPS, AND I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

WHO MALSTOW WORKS WITH

YAHOO!

Yahoo! Geo Technologies

Director of Engineering for Yahoo! Geo Technologies, responsible for leading the strategy, resources and products of the GeoInformatics group of Yahoo! Geo Technologies with a team of directs including Engineering and Data management, software engineers, data production engineers and QA engineers. Instrumental in delivering the public availability of the GeoPlanet, GeoPlanet Data and Placemaker platforms.

OVI MAPS

Ovi Maps

Director of the Ovi Places Registry at Nokia, responsible for leading the strategy and resources of the Places Registry, part of Nokia's Location group in Berlin. Leading a team of directs including Software Architects, Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Partner Relationship management and Quality Assurance.

OPENCAGE

OpenCage

Consulting with Lokku as their Geotechnologist in Residence for a six month period; reviewed the company's in-house developed geospatial assets and presented a product strategy for spinning out a series of geospatial and location based API products.

Devised and led the product development of the OpenCage Geocoding API, including web and mobile presence, API documentation and social media publicity. Represented the company at State of the Map EU in Karlsruhe as part of the soft launch of the API.

ORDNANCE SURVEY

Ordnance Survey

Acting as Head of APIs and leading the strategy, vision and direction of Britain's national mapping agency's API portfolio, including the current OS OpenSpace, OS OpenSpace Pro, OS OnDemand, OS Places and OS Property properties.